A political earthquake would be too weak a description of the shock caused by last Sunday’s election in the small German state of Saxony-Anhalt. The governing Christian Democrats (CDU) won a measly 17.2 per cent – down nearly 20 points from the previous election – while the right-populist AfD came out on top with 43.8 per cent.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “forward guidance” videos have proven adept at fostering populist tactics in the services of mainstream politics.
Voters across the western world have been drawn to conspiracy theories and demagogues because they fear that nobody is in control. In this series of videos, Carney has presented a calm, reassuring face to the world, telling Canadians that their “improbable country” will “pivot and prosper” in the face of the trade war with the Americans.
New York has honoured the victims of 9/11 by recreating the Twin Towers with 2,977 illuminated drones.
The show over New York Harbor on Wednesday night formed the outline of the towers, with one drone for each person who died in the attacks.
A drone light show featuring one drone for every life lost on 9/11 lit up the New York City sky in a powerful tribute to the victims. 🇺🇸
What a beautiful tribute. 🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/JUEeAIsgVC
— Brandon Tatum (@TheOfficerTatum) September 10, 2026
The organizations lobbying to keep Alberta in Canada ahead of a fall referendum vote are short on cash, tight on time and hamstrung in their ability to organize a concerted campaign for the federalist side.
Public opinion polls consistently show that separatist voters are in the minority in Alberta – but they are also highly motivated. That means in the Oct. 19 vote on whether to launch a formal separation referendum, how many people show up to vote could be the determining factor between a nail-biter and a decisive win for the federalist side.
Foreigners account for a massive share of thefts, sexual violence, and robberies on Paris public transport in 2025, according to new government data.
According to compilations from the SSMSI data files, foreigners accounted in 2025 for 87 percent of simple thefts on Île-de-France public transport, 60 percent of robberies, and 38 percent of physical assault.
On the eve of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks committed by Islamists on the United States that murdered 2,977 innocent people, former federal special representative on “Islamophobia” Amira Elghawaby says the 25 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks have been a difficult period for Muslims. She feels now is a time to try and portray Islamists as victims and plead for sympathy.
Her timing is vile, as is the ideology she is running cover for, and I couldn’t care less if Islamists got blowback for committing one of the most horrific terrorist atrocities of modern times.
I must return, regrettably, to the subject of the Church of England. Readers with long memories may recall the year of our Lord 2024. In -February of that year, the people who are meant to care for Canterbury Cathedral allowed a ‘silent disco’ to take place over two nights in the place where St Thomas à Becket was -martyred. Two thousand revellers turned up to take part in what became known as ‘a rave in the nave’. Naturally the Church of -England authorities denied that this -constituted any sort of defilement of one of England’s -holiest places.
The Conservative Party’s big tent has been filled with infighting these past few months.
It may not be obvious to anyone who spent the summer in an actual tent, rather than on social media, but fractures are forming within the coalition cultivated by leader Pierre Poilievre.
Fred DeLorey, the chair of NorthStar Public Affairs and a former top party adviser, said it feels like everyone’s trying to “define what is a Conservative.”
I don’t think Poilievre is the real problem so much as the anointed conservative establishment.
I can’t support a party that fails me on critical issues like Remigration.
Canada needs an AfD and parliament has to be swept clean.
Top work as always @Le_Crapaud47
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pic.twitter.com/O967ACiQKm— Tommy Robinson (@TRobinsonNewEra) September 9, 2026
In August of 2011, the British government—a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition led by David Cameron—discovered just how tenuous its grasp on law and order really was.
The most serious urban riots in a generation were kicked off by the death of a mixed-race man called Mark Duggan on August 4 in Tottenham, north London. Armed police intercepted the car Duggan was traveling in and shot him. The officers said they believed he had been carrying a gun, and a converted pistol was found at the scene; tight gun laws in the UK mean criminals often convert deactivated pistols and starter guns into live weapons. Initial reports claimed there was an exchange of gunfire, but the story quickly changed. Duggan wasn’t holding the gun at the time he was killed. It took until 2014, and a full judicial inquest, to establish that Duggan had indeed been lawfully killed.
This had me in stitches! @robnoerr @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/ZnpNxMWi8x
— Rachel Wilson (@Rach4Patriarchy) September 10, 2026
h/t Patti Jo
OTTAWA — A former senior Canadian defence official suing the federal government over a dismissal her lawyer links to Mark Carney’s pivot toward China is pointing to the government’s newly disclosed military engagement with Beijing — and to what she calls growing public recognition that Canada’s partnership with China has impeded trade talks with Washington.
They’re not in the least ashamed about it.
SACRAMENTO — California’s government obviously is notorious for its slow-moving and bureaucratic permitting processes — and its frequent hostility to private enterprise. Despite the state budget’s reliance on capital-gains revenue from the tech industry, officials here also can be quite meddlesome when it comes to AI and social media. But recent news from the California Public Utilities Commission, which regulates autonomous passenger-service vehicles, offers some encouraging news.
Back in 2017, I had been chatting with Financial Times columnist Edward Luce and he made an observation: Many people viewed U.S. President Donald Trump’s election as a temporary aberration, one that would end once he left office. Nearly a decade later, Canada is still grappling with the opposite reality, yet the perception that things are temporary persists.
The trade war is often discussed as a dispute to be negotiated away, measured in tariffs, retaliation and timelines. That framing misses the larger lesson.
The foreign ministers of 12 Western countries have apparently decided that the best way to promote peace between Israelis and Palestinians is to punish businesses operating in Jewish communities in the West Bank.
One can only wonder what planet these ministers are living on.
On September 8, Canada, France, Iceland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Ireland, and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement declaring that they intend to introduce, or support, restrictions on trade in goods produced in Jewish settlements.
